Happy Halloween!! This is by far my favorite holiday! This year I decided to celebrate with a delicious Halloween cake. After days of deciding which favors and colors were the most Halloween I came up to the best combination for a cake.

I started by making three layers of vanilla cake; a black layer, purple layer, and a green layer. I start out by mixing the dry ingredients; white cake mix, flour, salt, and sugar. Next I add water, eggs, vanilla, olive oil, and sour cream. Once everything is combined its time to bake.

Bake for about 25-30 minutes until it passes the tooth pick test! While the cake cooled I whipped up a batch of American buttercream. I turned 1/3 of the frosting blue for the crumb layer, I thought it would be fun to cut into the cake and see the hidden blue. The rest of the frosting I turned orange with soft food color gel.

Next I made the dripping for the top of the cake

It’s finally time to assemble!! I started by

Once cakes are cooled it is time to assemble

Start with black on bottom, add orange buttercream and smooth out

Next add green layer followed by orange frosting

Next stack on purple cake layer

Add blue frosting to crumb coat

Place cake in refrigerate for 10 minutes to harden crumb coat

Next add final layer of orange frosting to cake

Press sprinkles on bottom third of cake

Next add purple drippings on top of cake

Lastly place ghost meringue cookies on top of cake and its ready to enjoy!! You can find the recipe for ghost meringue cookies under sweets.

White Vanilla Cake

Ingredients

1 Box white cake mix

1 cup Flour

1 cup Sugar

Pinch of salt

1 1/3 cup Water

1 cup Sour cream

2 tablespoons Olive oil

4 Egg whites

2 teaspoons Vanilla

Directions

Preheat oven 325 degrees

Grease cake pans

Combine flour, cake mix, sugar, and salt

Add water, olive oil, eggs, vanilla, and sour cream

Mix well

Place in cake pans

Bake 25-30 minutes until passes tooth pick test

Enjoy!

Drippings

Ingredients

¼ cup Heavy cream

¾ cup White chocolate chips

Purple food coloring

Plastic squirt bottle

Directions

Put heavy cream in microwave safe bowl and microwave for about 40 seconds

Place white chocolate chips in bowl

Pour hot heavy cream over chocolate chips

Allow to sit for 5 minutes

Stir until chips are completely melted

Mix in a drop of food coloring

Pour into squirt bottle and you are ready to decorate.

American Buttercream

Ingredients

3 Cups of butter, room temp

12 Cups powdered sugar

2 Teaspoons vanilla

Pinch of salt

1/3 Cup whipping cream

Directions

Whip butter using a kitchen aid with paddle attachment

Add vanilla

Add salt

Slowly add powdered sugar one cup at a time

Add whipping cream

Mix frosting on medium for 2 minutes to remove air bubbles

Hand mix right before using.

Halloween Cake

Directions

Once cakes are cooled it is time to assemble

Start with black on bottom, add orange buttercream and smooth out

Next add green layer followed by orange frosting

Next stack on purple cake layer

Add blue frosting to crumb coat

Place cake in refrigerate for 10 minutes to harden crumb coat

Next add final layer of orange frosting to cake

Press sprinkles on bottom third of cake

Next add purple drippings on top of cake

Lastly place ghost meringue cookies on top of cake and its ready to enjoy!!